Tree to 30 m high. Stem sometimes buttressed. Twigs terete or angular, soon glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 6–14 mm long; lamina elliptic to ovate to oblong, 9–13 cm long, 3–5 cm wide, penniveined, green and glabrous below. Inflorescence usually exceeding leaves. Flowers, cream, unpleasantly perfumed. Perianth tube 1.1–1.3 mm long, 1.1–1.3 mm wide, inner surface glabrous. Outer anthers 0.5–0.6 mm long, 0.5–0.6 mm wide, pubescent abaxially, glabrous adaxially; filaments c. 0.5 mm long. Inner anthers 0.6–0.7 mm long, 0.4–0.5 mm wide, glabrous; filaments c. 0.4 mm long. Ovary 0.7–1.2 mm long, 0.4–0.5 mm wide, glabrous; style glabrous. Fruit ellipsoidal, sometimes longitudinally ribbed, c. 15 mm long, 11 mm wide, black. Cotyledons creamy yellow.
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